Description
Book SynopsisEugene McCabe was born in Glasgow in 1930. His novel
Death and Nightingales was published in 1992 to high praise. He has published five collections of short stories, one non-fiction book and a novella. He is also a successful playwright. Eugene McCabe lives in County Monaghan.
Trade ReviewA deeply moving, powerful, and unforgettable book -- Michael Ondaatje
A truly astonishing novel – it goes straight to the heart * Hilary Mantel *
A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... Clearly one of the masterpieces of the century -- Colm Toibin
A novel of breadth, power and passion… From its poisonous and dramatic opening to its engrossing ending this novel will hold you in thrall throughout -- Bernard MacLaverty
I believe
Death and Nightingales is the finest novel by the greatest living Irish prose writer -- Alan Warner
Crisp, taut and unsentimental...this tragic tale of gold, prejudice, terrorism, emigration, love and oppression remains an impressive and moving achievement
* Observer *
Death and Nightingales should put Eugene McCabe in the first rank of contemporary Irish novelists -- John Banville
